When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

War is the business of barbarians.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.